Barry Koplowitz
Barry Koplowitz founded Interpath Technologies Corporation in 1999. He has been consulting in the IT field since 1984 and has specialized in the area of Network & Application Analysis/Troubleshooting--with various Protocol Analysis Tools--for the last 11 years. He spent 3 years with Network General and NAI traveling around the United States teaching for Sniffer University ®. Since leaving Sniffer University, he has worked consulting to large enterprise environments up to 120,000 nodes. http://www.interpathtech.com
Articles by this Author
Multi-Tier Latency Concepts-01
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published Yesterday
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
Multi-Tier Latency Concepts-01 by Barry Koplowitz
This article is also available as a Podcast on "The RootCause" podcast series available on iTunes
The issue of latency of any kind, is a complex issue
The Myth Of Network Latency
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 11/3/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
This article is also available as a Podcast on "The ROOT Cause" podcast series available on iTunes
There is a great deal of confusion surrounding the concept of Latency
The Enterprise Network Saturation Point
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 10/20/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
Size doesn't matter--it's the complexity that gets you
I have seen networks of less than two thousand nodes become so complex that they become essentially unmanageable, while networks of ten's of thousands of nodes are under control The reasons vary but have several things in common
The Technical Enterprise Practitioner (TEP) ™
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 09/22/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
As IT environments become more complex, technologists and their managers have stepped farther away from trying to understand the “What” or “How” of their technology Now, the critical skill is to know “Who,” specifically, who are the specialists required for the particular issue of the moment
Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--Oh My--Part TWO-Testing
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 07/23/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
This article is also available as a Podcast on "The ROOT Cause" available on iTunes Written and Narrated by Barry Koplowitz
Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--Oh My--Part One--Environments
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 06/23/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--OH MY--Part One--Environments by Barry Koplowitz
How it Vendors Direct it Best Practices
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 06/18/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
This article is covered in a podcast on "The ROOT Cause" Podcast Series available on itunes
TOOLS CREATE NEEDS
There is an old vaudeville routine about a man who finds another man, a bit inebriated, crawling around on the cement under a street light looking for something
Interpath Application Flow Diagrams-01
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 06/2/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
This article is also covered as a podcast on "The ROOT Cause" podcast series, available on iTunes
Interpath Application Flow Diagrams have been the second most frequently read or listened to topic on the Interpath Technologies website and The Sniffer Guy / The ROOT Cause podcast series
What's So Great About Packet-Sniffers?
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 04/6/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
There are many products on the market that provide different levels of Network Management or Server Management They are all easier to use than Packet-Sniffers and not nearly as cryptic
Mentoring In It
- By Barry Koplowitz
- Published 02/26/2008
- Other than plastics...
- Unrated
This article is also available as a "The Sniffer Guy" podcast on iTunes
ATTENTION AMERICAN IT MANAGERS: Within the next decade most of your best people will retire or die

